Azuma | عزومه | Food Gathering
Jude Abu Zaineh (Troy, NY)
Palestinian food, video projection, performance
June 25, 2024
On June 25th, from 7 PM to 8:30 PM, Jude Abu Zaineh hosted a multimedia performance featuring Palestinian food and video projections in the Multimedia Performance Lab at the Alan Wildeman Centre for Creative Arts. During this event, FEMeeting delegates participated and learned about the soft power of food for diasporic communities that maintain a tenuous connection to their ancestral homelands through her ongoing dinner series. The event included a performance, screening, and dinner gathering centered around Maqlouba, a traditional Palestinian dish, which was hosted by the artist. "Azuma | عزومه" aims to convene guests around Palestinian food, poetry, and folk stories.
Artist:
Jude Abu Zaineh
Location:
School of Creative Arts, Multimedia Studio
University of Windsor
Curator:
Mireille Bourgeois
Host Partners:
Dr. Jennifer Willet, INCUBATOR Art Lab, SoCA, UWindsor
Mireille Bourgeois, IOTA Institute, Halifax, NS
Marta de Menezes, Ectopia Experimental Art Laboratory, and Cultivamos Cultura Portugal
Dr. Dalila Honorato, Ionian University, Greece
Jude Abu Zaineh is a Palestinian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist-curator working across art, food, science, and technology studies. Her work develops counter-archive practices and investigates themes of culture, displacement, storytelling, diaspora, and belonging, through de-colonial and feminist perspectives. She examines ideals of home and community influenced by her childhood and upbringing in Southwest Asia.
Abu Zaineh is the recipient of several awards including, the 2020 William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists, and was one of the first selected artists to participate in a collaborative residency with the Ontario Science Centre and MOCA Toronto (Canada). She has presented her works at Ireland Glass Biennale; Malta Society of Arts, Valletta, Malta; Cultivamos Cultura, São Luis, Portugal; Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal; Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City, Mexico; SVA, NYC, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, USA; Forest City Gallery, London, Canada; Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France; Museum London, Canada; Museum of Glass, Washington, USA, and more.
Her work has been featured in VICE Arabia, PBS, NPR, across CBC Canada platforms, Canadian Art magazine, NEUES GLAS-NEW GLASS: art & architecture magazines, and on the cover of fuse: the Museum of Glass Magazine.
Abu Zaineh's works can be found in the permanent collections of The Museum of Glass (USA), Art Windsor-Essex (Canada), The City of Windsor's Public Art Commission (Canada), as well as private collections internationally.
She received an MFA from the University of Windsor (Canada) and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY, USA), where she was an RPI Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Fellow and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow.
She maintains an active studio practice between upstate NY, USA and southern Ontario, Canada.
Contact:
judeabuzaineh@gmail.com
IG: @judeaz_
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Jude Abu Zaineh for hosting Azuma | عزومه | Food Gathering at the University of Windsor School of Creative Arts Multimedia Performance Lab.
Image Credit
Installation shots by Michael Valiquette
